Name your price for great Star Wars comics in Dark Horse's first-ever DRM-free foray, and support the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/N3Iwqt93Lro/humble-bundle-with-dark-horse.html

White Lion and Lioness, a photo shared by readers Ria en Reinier Mensink in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/OLRKWt5WDtg/white-lion-and-lioness-photo.html

Anacapri dog, a photo shared by reader Capri Violin in the Boing Boing Flickr Pool.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/EUsVzbbi0-g/anacapri-dog-photo-from-the-b.html

Thom writes, "Oct. 16 is 'Social Media Blackout Day,' so Quirk Books put together a list of books to read that have to do with social media and the internet...because irony?"

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/tdXSOeVtvZE/internetty-reading-for-social.html

And it's terrible, writes Wired: "It undermines the mystery of one of literature's greatest characters."

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/3lUkG5-WiSQ/dracula-untold-yet-another-vi.html

Either that, or the small merle one is unsuccessfully attempting to eat the large black one. Photo credit unknown!

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LXAyG3t-LMY/dogs-team-up-in-unimaginably-c.html

Students and faculty from a teachers' college in Guerrero state set fire to a government building in Chilpancingo in fury at the disappearance of 43 student teachers believed to have been kidnapped by corrupt police officers working with a drug cartel. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/oFbC2zbjowE/protesters-burn-capital-buildi.html

Joshua Glenn and Elizabeth Foy Larsen recommend their favorite cooperative board games. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/M1NMK4w91Gc/best-ever-cooperative-boardgam.html

From one of science fiction's most versatile writers comes a caper novel about corporate sleaze and net-savvy guerrilla activists that is as thrilling as it is trenchant. Cory Doctorow reviews Paolo Bacigalupi's The Doubt Factory. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/83ZYPNhs-24/paolo-bacigalupis-the-doub.html

Ben Marks explores the history of the psychedelic rock poster. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/C-owvUK1tEg/when-art-rocked.html

YouTube user OpenBooster uses his aptly-named account to open booster packs of Magic: The Gathering cards.

Witness his palpable delight when he pulls one of the Power Nine cards from an unopened  20-year-old Alpha set, a mint-condition Black Lotus.

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http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/TUAFy1G6jPo/collector-pulls-mint-magic-th.html

Dronecode started as 3D Robotics' free/open codebase for UAVs, and it has grown to the point where it has flown off on its own, with a formal, community-run board and an ambitious roadmap for the future. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/feiyNHyI-nA/dronecode-open-community-mai.html

Jennifer Allaway is a social scientist who studies diversity in games. In the wake of being targeted by Gamergate trolls, she has written an analysis of the movement as a hate group, showing that it satisfies the formal requirements for such. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/86CHe9QL1yQ/gamergate-as-a-hate-group.html

In central Japan's Gifu Prefecture, a man demonstrates the making of sampuru, the fantastic fake food seen in many Japanese restaurants.

Learn more in this Tofugu post: "Japanese Food Models, Yesterday And Today"

And another informative clip below, from Wim Wenders' documentary Tokyo Ga (1985):

(via The Kid Should See This)

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/fzdxoONCpwM/videos-how-fake-japanese-food.html

Google put a camera on a camel to capture a "Street View" of Abu Dhabi's Liwa Dessert. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/ss6NpdDnue8/abu-dhabi-camel-carries-googl.html

Artist Concetta Antico is a tetrachromat, meaning a deformity in her eyes enables her to see approximately 100 times more colors than an average person. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/6U-dS-OzNgY/woman-sees-100-times-more-colo.html

My pal Gina Pell was disenchanted with the same tired ol' emojis making the rounds so she came up with LOLy, a free app-based collection of oversized animated emojis that are funny, crass, smart, offensive, sexy, cutesie, ironic, insulting, sophisticated, sassy, charming, witty, obnoxious, stylish, and damned addictive. Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/bitfyVXvGqY/loly-witty-and-crass-animated.html

Brunton saw me coming when they came up with their Power Knife Multi Charger integrating a standard USB to Apple Lightning, 30-Pin, and Micro-USB. Sharp, but spendy at $25.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/_6QRzMAxhUM/usb-charger-in-a-knife-form-fa.html

The artist hand-embroidered lyrics about women onto vintage lingerie, and in so doing, “unites the apparent contradictions between 'the masculine' and 'the feminine' in contemporary culture.” Read the rest

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/LFgSfITZmew/every-curve-biggie-and-tupac.html

Kelly Atlas, an activist with Direct Action Everywhere, delivered to diners at Bluestem in San Francisco a tearful, dramatic rant about her "little girl and her sisters."

The "little girl" is a chicken named Snow.

http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/CdOV_AISn68/women-accuses-restaurant-patro.html